An introduction to Open (meta)Data at Europeana and how we make it available to developers via our API. Inevitably it also touches on licensing of content.
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Europeana and Open Data at the Hague Open Data Meetup
1. Open (meta)Data and Open Content in
Europeana
Open Data Meetup #4, 2013-02-19
2. This is me
Hi,
I’m David Haskiya and I’m the Product
Developer at Europeana.
So what does that mean? It means that I
translate between GLAM-speak and
Development speak to make sure our web
sites and other technical tools deliver value
to our users.
One of our products I work with is our API.
And the API really needs Open Data!
/David
PS. GLAM=Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. DS.
3. What I hope you’ll be able to take away
Some basic info about Europeana
An overview of our Open Data (metadata
and media)
And why we like Open!
An introduction to our API
A quick Q&A
9. Why Open?
Because most metadata are facts and facts are not copyrightable
Titles, dates, identifiers, factual descriptions etc.
Because a large proportion of cultural content is out of copyright
The creators are a lot of dead (70+ years) white guys…
Because the citizen has already (in most cases) paid for it once
Because our mission is to increase public access and re-use and
Open Data, Open Content and Open Access facilitates that
Tip: Use CC-BY-SA if you have in copyright content that you don’t want
others to exclusively commercially re-use
10. All metadata Open, some content Open
All the metadata (descriptions of media objects) is
CC0 and so free for any reuse
Media objects individually licenced or marked as being in the Public
Domain
Must only be reused according to its licence
Not all Europeana objects have an explicit licence but we’re
working to gradually improve that
Check out our Terms of Use&Policies
And read our Licensing Framework in full (PDF)
11. The media object licence in display
Click this
licence badge!
And if you’re using the API this licence can be found in the field
europeana:rights (API v.1) or edm:rights (API v.2)
13. The Europeana Licensing Framework
The Framework consists of:
Europeana Data Exchange
Agreement
Creative Commons Zero
Universal Public Domain Dedication
(CC0 waiver) for metadata
Europeana Data Use Guidelines
Europeana Terms for User
Contributions
EDM:rights field of the Europeana
Data Model for content/media
These elements ensure all data can
be aggregated and freely re-used.
15. Not only a portal, but also an API!
What’s in the portal is also available in the API
16. The Europeana API
API v.1 in production since early 2011
API v.2 to be released in March but is already in beta
• Sign-up and get started with your implementation
• When released API v.1 will be supported but won’t be developed further
API v.2 allows a developer to programmatically access all search
and retrieval functions available in the portal
Our latest (API2) partner implementation is from the UN’s Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) search service OpenAGRIS
Search e.g. for pesticides or olea europaea (latin for olive tree)
The API allows our partners and third parties to build specialized
applications using all or selections of our functionality and content
And in so doing they can adapt Europeana content to their user’s needs
and requirements. As FAO has done.
18. Find out about our API services
Europeana portal europeana.eu
• New portal and API preview http://preview.europeana.eu
• API v.2 console http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/api/console.html
• API v.2 sign-up http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/api/registration.html
Europeana Professional pro.europeana.eu
• API pages http://pro.europeana.eu/api
• API case studies http://pro.europeana.eu/case-studies
• Professional blog pro.europeana.eu/blog
Europeana Linked Open Data http://data.europeana.eu
Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/EuropeanaEU
Or on Linked In linkedin.com/groups/Europeana-134927/about
Editor's Notes
Me, me, me!!!
Your takeways
Here comes the infodump!
You can reach our portal at www.europeana.eu and the preview of our new version portal at preview.europeana.eu
Example used is: http://preview.europeana.eu/portal/record/90402/174D436CF5C61F8AA999090C98DA48B9C7024087.html Een vrouw met een kind in een kelderkamer by Pieter de Hooch, Rijksmuseum, public domain
Our API console
Terms of Use for metadata, http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/terms-of-use.html Our general Terms of Use and Policies, http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/terms-and-policies.html
Some object don’t have a structured licence field Allowed licences are the Creative Commons licences and variations of All rights reserved There is also a value for Unknown rights which can be used when a diligent search has not managed to get a clear result And the Public Domain mark to clearly marks Public Domain objects as such
See http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/1494947 for more info about current licence distribution and our rights labelling campaign
1. The Europeana Data Exchange Agreement (DEA) structures the relationship of Europeana and its data providers. It details the exchange whereby data providers receive back enriched metadata as well as access to other metadata of interest. It establishes rules for updating and deleting metadata stored by Europeana and deals with issues such as liability and removal of data at the request of third parties. 2. The Creative Commons Zero Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0 waiver). The CC0 waiver is a legal tool that has been developed by Creative Commons for making data available without restrictions on re-use. This means that anyone can use the metadata published by Europeana for any purpose without any restrictions whatsoever. 3. The Europeana Data Use Guidelines. These guidelines make best practice requests to users of the metadata. The Data Use Guidelines deal with issues like attribution and Data integrity. 4. The Europeana terms for user contributions. These terms apply to end users who contribute content to Europeana, so that Europeana can use content provided by its users and integrate it with other Europeana-held content and data. 5. The EDM rights field of the Europeana Data Model. The Europeana Data Model Specifies how data needs to be formatted so that Europeana can use it. This specification includes rights information relating to digital objects that are made available via Europeana.
Any questions? This poster by an unknown artist is courtesy of the Municipal Library of Lyon The work is in the public domain